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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I wonder who Adam has heard from around the league to make a statement like some people think its a 95% chance that Matt will stay in New England as reported in his blog today.
Adam is one of the best in the business so its surprising to hear that such a large percentage stated from some people from the NFL say that the Pats are not as secure or sure in Brady's complete recovery as we may think he will be
Even if this is true that the Pats are not certain about Brady, there is no explanation as to why the Pats would opt to be SEVERELY handicapped with such a hit on the cap with two players ...and one who is only a backup - It would be suicide on any money for FA signings or draftees this offseason.
NFL.com Blogs Blog Archive Cassel signs $14.65M franchise tender
Are you insane? - Do you realize the effects this would have on any FA signings that we need to shore up the D,not to mention contracts for the rookies we draft and on top of that money for extensions on Wilfork,Seymour ect:
There is simply not enough cap space to do ALL of this unless the players give into playing for about half of what the other teams would offer them - Can't do it with nearly 30M tied up in 2 QBs contracts - thats the bottom line
Geez! You mean there is actually some other people besides myself that think the Patriots signed Cassel to keep him during the uncertainty of the Brady 2009 season? From the abuse Igot, Ibegan to think I was the only one, and my own calcualted numbers taht showed it was feasible, didn't add up.
Heaven forfend !!
On another board a fellow made anastute observation about how it would help if Seymou rand maybe Green were extended, to make things easier.It would help bu ta new deal makes it a cakewalk, described below.
Here is a copy of that post/response:
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Originally Posted by Belisarius
When you look at that list, trading Cassel looks better and better as it solves cap issues in one fell swoop and leaves room to go shopping.
Failing that, extending Green and Seymour is a necessity, not a luxury.
Exactly correct. Seymour and maybe Greene will probably be extended.
Offering Seymour a five year deal with a Signing Bonus at essentially $8.5 million a year or so Cap hit, but essentially his present salary of approximatly $4+ million a year, (excepthte SB year as is conventional) would free almost $4.5 million this year, on the CAP. If the SB was for $20 million that would work and keep him a Pat for the rest of his HOF career.
The deal would be 5 years at $40 million with a $20 million SB and annual salaries of $4+ million a year, but only 2 million this year. This is essentially a level load deal, and produces no future year problems. I think the value is about what the going rate is for a top DE, and Richard gets $22+ million cash in 2009.
Then the CAP is not $3.9 but almost $9 million. You can sign all your own FAs, that you want; and even take a stab at signing another of the post 2009 FA guys, or look at a FA. (and also keep Cassel & Brady).
Pretty suprising leap in logic by Schefter. He's usually right on the money... let's hope this is one of the times that he's wrong.
I think you under estimate how much it would take to extend
Seymour. Seymour will shoot for Dwight Freeney money. Dwight
received a 30 million dollar bonus with an average salary of 12
million dollars a year for 6 years.
Offering Seymour a five year deal with a Signing Bonus at essentially $8.5 million a year or so Cap hit, but essentially his present salary of approximatly $4+ million a year, (excepthte SB year as is conventional) would free almost $4.5 million this year, on the CAP. If the SB was for $20 million that would work and keep him a Pat for the rest of his HOF career.
The deal would be 5 years at $40 million with a $20 million SB and annual salaries of $4+ million a year, but only 2 million this year. This is essentially a level load deal, and produces no future year problems. I think the value is about what the going rate is for a top DE, and Richard gets $22+ million cash in 2009.
Belichick is doing too good a job pretending he wants to keep Cassel, thus raising the asking price.
Bill, give them some hope so they at least TRY to trade for Cassel!!
BB is just driving up the price for Cassel and with all these "Experts" offering their opinions, I think BB has them eating out of his hand. Adam is usually spot on but on this I think he needs to do more homework like most of these experts.
As of right now we will be right at the CAP after we sign our draft picks for 2009 with Cassel on the team. Wright, Gaffney, Evans, Jordan, Hanson, Hochstien, Izzo, Harrison and James Sanders. All of these 9 players we would not be able to resign without making cuts or restructuring and BB is good but not that good.
All 9 UFA I mention all played big roll's on the team so I guess we are going to let all them go and rely on 9 draft picks to fill these spots. Even by doing so I doubt BB will go into a season with only 1 million in Cap space and pay one of his QB's to backup at a 14.6 million dollar price tag.
No way we keep Cassel. I trust Adam usually... but there is just no way we tie up that kind of cash.
ok this is a stupid statement "SOME of the NFL"
let's see does 15% of the NFL believe that there's a 95% chance?
or let's say there is 50% of the NFL that beleives there is a 95% chance he'll leave.
or what about the BB misinformation factor.
let's wait and see how sweet of an offer is made that BB can't turn down.
let's drive up the price!!!!